Due to circumstances beyond our control, we regret that we are unable to show this film in the Festival. Iconic, Brooklyn-born Ruth Gruber is the vibrant subject of this documentary mix of archival footage and interviews. She was the youngest person in the world to earn a Ph.D. and the first journalist to enter the Soviet Arctic in 1935. During World War II, Ruth escorted 1,000 Holocaust refugees to Oswego, New York for the Interior Department; after the War, she covered the Nuremberg trials and the Exodus for the New York Herald Tribune . Marvel at elegant, spellbinding Ruth as she nears the century mark. Boston Premiere In Person: Ruth Gruber (invited) and Zeva Oelbaum, Producer Sponsored by: Jewish Women’s Archive Please anticipate increased wait times and limited parking at the Museum of Fine Arts due to the opening of the new Art of the Americas wing.

In this poignant drama, Anita Feldman (an extraordinary debut by Alejandra Manzo) is a young woman with Down Syndrome. Lovingly cared for by her mother (Oscar® nominee Norma Aleandro), Anita helps run her small stationery store in their Buenos Aires Jewish neighborhood. Everything changes on July 18, 1994, when a car bomb explodes outside the AMIA Jewish community center, killing 85 people and injuring hundreds. Disoriented, Anita wanders the city for days – trusting to chance and deeply affecting everyone she meets.  New England Premiere The October 26 Framingham screening is followed by a dessert reception at the theatre. Sponsored by: CJP and the MetroWest Jewish Community Center in partnership with MetroWest Area Synagogues and Agencies (Oct 26 screening) Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Boston (Nov 4 screening) Community Partners: Argentinean Jewish Relief Committee Gateways: Access to Jewish Education

The year: 1943. The place: Occupied France. A cell of partisan guerilla fighters successfully organizes to bring down high-ranking Nazi officials. Missak Manouchian, a French poet who lost his family in the Armenian genocide, leads 23 Jewish and Communist saboteurs, many of them members of the MOI (Immigrant Workforce Movement). Director Robert Guédiguian’s suspenseful telling of this legendary chapter in the French resistance contrasts the devoted love between Missak and his wife Mélinée with how we choose violence: reluctantly, impulsively and chillingly. Community Partners: The Armenian Film Festival of Boston The Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film Generations After, Inc. Jewish Family & Children's Service of Greater Boston Please anticipate increased wait times and limited parking at the Museum of Fine Arts due to the opening of the new Art of the Americas wing.

In this explosive story, Amos (Shmuel Vilozni) is a mental health worker and widower who protects his schizophrenic teenage son Yurik (Michael Moshonov, Lebanon ) from hospitalization. When Amos discovers Bena (Rachel Santillon), an illegal Thai, working as a caregiver, he brings her home to tend to his increasingly fragile son. Yurik’s jealousy is aroused by his father’s warm relationship with Bena. With her husband – also an illegal immigrant – missing, Bena feels trapped by Yurik’s unwanted attentions. Director Niv Klainer’s first feature drama is a stunner. News: Actor Michael Moshonov just won the Israeli Academy Award ( Ophir ) for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Mabul (The Flood) , directed by Guy Nativ ( Strangers , Festival 2008) East Coast Premiere In Person: Director Niv Klainer Community Partner: Roxbury International Film Festival

When filmmaker Noa Ben Hagai discovers her great-aunt Pnina’s letters, she learns that in the 1940s, 14-year-old Pnina married an Arab man. Curious, Noa engages her uncle, a retired Israeli intelligence colonel, to track down her relatives in the West Bank. As the families reunite, their divergent backgrounds strain their newfound relationship. Juxtaposing Pnina’s letters, read by actor Hiam Abbass, with interviews and reunions of this Jewish-Arab clan, Blood Relation offers a fresh perspective on Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation and packs an emotional wallop. East Coast Premiere Please anticipate increased wait times and limited parking at the Museum of Fine Arts due to the opening of the new Art of the Americas wing.

Short films screening in this program include: Blood Relation (Kirvat Dam), Lost Paradise Please anticipate increased wait times and limited parking at the Museum of Fine Arts due to the opening of the new Art of the Americas wing.

A handsome young man speeding his Audi around mountainous curves overlooking the Mediterranean; a single cufflink; a leather bag filled with bills. Four brothers in Paris gather every Shabbat for dinner at their widowed mother’s home. What’s the link? Director Alexandre Arcady jumps from Marseille to Paris before we can connect the dots, as the fifth brother, long estranged from his family, breaks out of prison and flees the mob. Stars in this fast-paced thriller include Patrick Bruel, Vincent Elbaz, Eric Caravaca, Françoise Fabian, and Michel Aumont. U.S. Premiere Sponsored by : Friends of The Boston Jewish Film Festival in MetroWest (Nov 1 screening) Supported by : Cultural Services of the French Embassy in Boston

Note: Tickets are sold out online for the screening at the Coolidge Corner Theatre (Nov 6, 7:00) and the early screening at the Arlington Capitol Theatre (November 13, 7:00). Tickets will be released beginning one hour before each screening. Pensive, chanson-loving cabbie Yigal (Dror Keren, nominated for an Israeli Film Academy Award) falls for Lina (Elena Yaralova), his son’s music teacher, who happens to be a Russian beauty and former concert pianist. But nothing is easy for Yigal: Lina turns out to have a husband, Grisha (Vladimir Freedman), who’s gone to Canada to take his medical boards. Yigal’s fear of flying complicates their relationship as it plays out to a panoply of musical styles in this Chekhovian romantic comedy, set in working-class Tel Aviv. New England Premiere In Person: Director Leon Prudovsky (Nov 6) Sponsored by: Greater Boston Friends of American Friends of Magen David Adom (Nov 6) Community Partners: Center Makor Hadassah, Boston Chapter (Nov 6)